J. Richard Kulerski is a veteran divorce lawyer with forty-plus years of courtroom experience. He is a partner in the divorce law firm of Kulerski and Cornelison. Richard is a staunch advocate of the settlement/non-court approach to divorce.

He is a seasoned divorce trial lawyer, a Harvard Law-trained mediator and settlement negotiator, published author, speaker, and divorce negotiation coach.

Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers – Program on Negotiation (Roger Fisher, instructor), 1999

George Williams College of Aurora University School of Social Work, Williams Bay, WI – Conflict Resolution and Divorce Mediation Institute (additional training in divorce mediation and screening for impairments), 1999

Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California – Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Advanced Family Mediation Skills, 2000 (Pepperdine Law ranked number one in dispute resolution by US News & World Report, 2003)

Pepperdine University School of Law – Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Collaborative Law Training, 2002

Thirty-hour mediation externship in Kane County, Illinois, divorce court (in addition to ten hours of extern group roundtable discussion), sponsored through the George Williams College of Aurora University School of Social Work – Conflict Resolution and Divorce Mediation Institute, 1999–2000